Barnie's Book Reviews #1,094

I just finished Ham on Rye by Bukowski. I loved it, and I love Bukowski. He's crass, rude, and obnoxious. And he writes hella short chapters. I like that. I don't think it's a short attention span thing, I just like my novels in comfortable bite sizes. You sit down to read Bukowski, and you know even if you only have a minute where you're going to end up, at a nice chapter break. Hell, sometimes there's more than one nice stopping point within a chapter. You don't have to make a huge commitment of time. And if you do wanna sit there for awhile it feels like the chapters just fly by and you're reading really fast and it gives me a nice satisfied feeling.

This is why I fucking hate Pratchett. (Not really hate, but c'mon. Jesus.) One long string of words Bastard.

It's really "Ham on Rye: A Novel". A novel huh? I never would have guessed, it's a good thing they pointed that out! I think all of the books in docbrite's Liquor series do that too. It's amusing, at least to me, because if you're picking up a book in the first place, you're literate and know what you're dealing with. And if you can't read, it doesn't make much difference anyway.

I should probably read more short stories.

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I just got a package from microsoft. Windows Home server, beta 2. Oh boy.

Beware #18

One of my dreams is to have a toga party on this date.

You Guessed It #8

So, I was in line at walmart today, and a woman came flying up behind me with her cart. She'd gven up on waiting behind me and was intent on switching registers. She clipped the back of the one next to me sending plastic bags everwhere, fishtailed into a coke display shattering bottles and spraying fizz everywhere, then rammed into another register at full speed breaking it in two and showering some open propane tanks with sparks which ignited and caused an explosion strong enough to ignite a plutonium rod someone had dropped amongst them which then triggered a fusion reaction in the water coolers.

( I turned to look and... )

I'm just glad there wasn't any anti-matter around.